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"Two years ago this week, the Recovery trial transformed the care of COVID
patients with its dexamethasone announcement. Within four hours, the steroid
was included in NHS treatment recommendations. Almost overnight, treatment of
COVID patients around the world changed completely. It has been estimated that
dexamethasone may have saved a million lives in the first nine months following
the announcement.
Recovery, jointly led by Oxford Population Health and the Nuffield Department
of Medicine, is a groundbreaking scientific machine which, from the outset,
moved at unprecedented speed. Within 15 days, more than 1,000 participants
around the UK had joined the trial; five weeks later, that number had risen to
10,000. In the first 100 days alone, the trial produced three groundbreaking
results that would completely reshape COVID care.
From an impromptu discussion between two professors on a London bus to
headlines around the world – and a baby being born at home in the midst of the
pandemic – this is the inside story of Recovery, by three medics who have been
part of this extraordinary journey."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
